Louis Hovey Sharp (1874-1946)

LOUIS  HOVEY  SHARP (1874-1946)      Born in Glencoe, IL on July 27, 1874, Louis Sharp was a landscape painter on the grand scale. Around 1910, Sharp studied privately with Chase Duveneck, Charles Boutwood, and at the Art Institute of Chicago.  He moved on to sketch for a brief time at Walpi, on the Hopi reservation in Arizona.  In 1914 he settled in Pasadena., CA.  For the following 15 years he maintained studios in both  California and in Taos , New Mexico.  He also spent months at a time at the Grand Canyon painting scenes for the Santa Fe Railroad.  Sharp died in Pasadena,CA. in 1946.    Louis Hovey Sharp is listed in the Smithsonian Institution Inventory of American Paintings, a member of: California Art Club; California  Watercolor Society;  Painters & Sculptures of LA.,  Panama-California Expo (San Diego) 1915 winning the silver and bronze medals. 

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Born in Glencoe, IL on July 27, 1874. Sharp studied with Chase, Duveneck, Charles Boutwood, and at the AIC. He sketched for a brief time on the Hopi reservation in Arizona before moving to Pasadena, CA in 1914. For the next 15 years he kept studios both in Pasadena and Taos, NM. In 1917 he spent many months painting in the Grand Canyon; in 1925 he was on the Monterey peninsula, and after 1929 lived for a time in the Austrian Tyrol. Sharp died in Pasadena on June 13, 1946. Member: Calif. Art Club; Calif. WC Society; Painters & Sculptors of LA. Exh: Friday Morning Club (LA), 1914; Panama-Calif. Expo (San Diego), 1915 (silver and bronze medals); LACMA, 1915; Kanst Gallery (LA), 1915-18; Raymond Hotel (Pasadena), 1919; Ely Gallery (Pasadena), 1923; Barker Bros (LA), 1924; Southby Salon (LA), 1925; Biltmore Salon (LA), 1925; Cannell & Chaffin (LA), 1925; Nicholson Gallery (Pasadena), 1926; Pasadena Society of Artists, 1927; Pasadena Art Inst., 1929; Strelecki Gallery (LA), 1937. In: Santa Fe Railway. Source: Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940" American Art Annual 1907; California State Library (Sacramento); Southern California Artists (Nancy Moure); Artists of the American West (Doris Dawdy); Death record. Nearly 20,000 biographies can be found in Artists in California 1786-1940 by Edan Hughes and is available for sale ($150). For a full book description and order information please click here. Biography from AskART: A landscape painter, he did subjects that include desert landscapes, the Grand Canyon, and western genre. He was born in Glencoe, Illinois, and studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and in the East with William Merritt Chase, Frank Duveneck, and Charles Boutwood. He is listed in the Smithsonian Institution Inventory of American Paintings as having painted the Grand Canyon around 1910. He also painted at Walpi on the Hopi Reservation and in the 1920s, painted Grand Canyon scenes for the Santa Fe Railroad. From 1914, he lived in Pasadena, California, and had a studio there and also in Taos, New Mexico. In the 1930s, he painted in the Austrian Tyrol where he became a resident for a short time. He died in Los Angeles on July 12, 1946.

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Conservator Barry Bauman thrives on his love of uncovering the original work of an artist, layer-by-layer.  And his ongoing, meticulous cleaning of a landscape by Oak Park native Louis Hovey Sharp has revealed the light-filled landscape of Point Lobos

Pasadena Society of Artists
1925: April 4: 1st Annual Exhibition, Pasadena Art Institute @ Carmelita Gardens House, Pasadena, CA

California Art Club
He kept studios in both Pasadena and Taos, and painted often in the Grand Canyon. (H)

19?? Grand Canyon

1913 Two Native Americans at the Grand Canyon oil on canvas

19?? Japanese Tea House 30" x 25" oil on canvas

19?? Point Lobos oil on canvas Framed oil on canvas, Eucalyptus Trees on the Coast, by Louis Hovey Sharp (Californian, 1874-1946), signed lower right, sight: 11.5'' x 15.5'', overall: 17'' x 21'' $ 2,000.00 $ 4,000.00

C 1920 Figure in a Boat on a Lake 14" x 17" – watercolor – signed He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, and exhibited in Taos and Pasadena in the 1910s-1930s, as well the Painters and Sculptors of Los Angeles, and the Panama-California Expo (San Diego, 1915). Sharp lived in Pasadena in 1914, and also lived in Oak Park, IL.

C 1924 California Sunset 29" x 23" oil on canvas Image courtesy of Treadway/Toomey Galleries [Louis Hovey Sharp (1875-1946 Pasadena, CA) landscape - "California Sunset" titled verso s & dated l/l: Louis H. Sharp 1924 o/c 24x30 est:$4000/6000 Provenance: A George Stern Fine Art Gallery label is affixed verso, private collection, Venice, CA]

C 19?? California Coastal Landscape 16" x 12" oil on canvas for sale: http://www.americaneaglefineart.com/

C 19?? California Landscape Painter. Louis Hovey Sharp was born in Glencoe, Illinois on July 27, 1874. He studied with Chase, Duveneck, Charles Boutwood, and at the Art Institute of Chicago. Sharp sketched for a brief time on the Hopi reservation in Arizona before moving to Pasadena, California in 1914. For the next 15 years he kept studios both in Pasadena and Taos, New Mexico. In 1917 he spent many months painting in the Grand Canyon; in 1925 he was in Carmel on the Monterey peninsula, and after 1929 lived for a time in the Austrian Tyrol. Sharp died in Pasadena on June 13, 1946. Louis Hovey Sharp biography courtesy Edan Hughes.

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